History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1877 - Ethics |
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... less certain that in civilised , and therefore developed man , the good greatly preponderates over the evil . Benevolence is more common than cruelty ; the sight of suffering more readily produces pity than joy ; gratitude , not ...
... less certain that in civilised , and therefore developed man , the good greatly preponderates over the evil . Benevolence is more common than cruelty ; the sight of suffering more readily produces pity than joy ; gratitude , not ...
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... less crimi- nal for mothers to put out their children to nurse . Juvenal has some well - known and emphatic lines on the subject : - Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses , as FROM CONSTANTINE TO CHARLEMAGNE . 21.
... less crimi- nal for mothers to put out their children to nurse . Juvenal has some well - known and emphatic lines on the subject : - Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses , as FROM CONSTANTINE TO CHARLEMAGNE . 21.
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... less than that of simple infanticide . In the civil law her influence was also displayed , though not , I think , very advantageously . By the counsel , it is said , of Lactantius , Constantine , in the very year of his conversion , in ...
... less than that of simple infanticide . In the civil law her influence was also displayed , though not , I think , very advantageously . By the counsel , it is said , of Lactantius , Constantine , in the very year of his conversion , in ...
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... less atrocious than other forms of homicide , it was punished , not by death , but by banishment . A law of Constantine , intended principally , and perhaps exclusively , for Africa , where the sacrifices of children to Saturn were very ...
... less atrocious than other forms of homicide , it was punished , not by death , but by banishment . A law of Constantine , intended principally , and perhaps exclusively , for Africa , where the sacrifices of children to Saturn were very ...
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... less numerous , they do not appear to have been suspended until their final suppression . The passion for gladiators was the worst , while religious liberty was probably the best , feature of the old Pagan society ; and it is a ...
... less numerous , they do not appear to have been suspended until their final suppression . The passion for gladiators was the worst , while religious liberty was probably the best , feature of the old Pagan society ; and it is a ...
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